Falcon 9 launched Turksat 5B from Cape Canaveral, Turkey's most powerful communications satellite to date, providing broadband coverage across Turkey, the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Africa for roughly 15 years; the booster landed on a droneship.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 76th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 2021, 03:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-126
- Launches in 2021
- 136th of 146
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